Family
Just found out that another of my very conservative, very "christian" relatives has unfriended me on Facebook. I feel hurt and saddened by this additional evidence of why our country is self-destructing. Half of it has no interest in understanding the views of the other and condemns them for what they think that half must be saying.
And the other half is so worried about fostering understanding that they get drawn into picayune arguments of the "when did you stop beating your wife" variety. Liberals are liberals because we try to see all sides of an argument. It makes us seem wishy-washy and it leaves us open to trying to explain things that ...
Well, from my admittedly liberal point of view, it apears to me that conservatives view all debate and discussion as hostile attacks because they use those to attack with hostility. Since some of my conservative family members aren't interested in explaining themselves without using the threat of hell-fire, I have no way of correcting that perception. And frankly, conservative Republicans do all they can to foster it.
I am hurt. I am saddened and ... I really wish they would stop calling themselves "christian" when they predominately use passages from the Old Testament to support positions that Jesus of Nazareth (as presented by the Gospels of the New Testament) would NEVER have espoused.
And the other half is so worried about fostering understanding that they get drawn into picayune arguments of the "when did you stop beating your wife" variety. Liberals are liberals because we try to see all sides of an argument. It makes us seem wishy-washy and it leaves us open to trying to explain things that ...
Well, from my admittedly liberal point of view, it apears to me that conservatives view all debate and discussion as hostile attacks because they use those to attack with hostility. Since some of my conservative family members aren't interested in explaining themselves without using the threat of hell-fire, I have no way of correcting that perception. And frankly, conservative Republicans do all they can to foster it.
I am hurt. I am saddened and ... I really wish they would stop calling themselves "christian" when they predominately use passages from the Old Testament to support positions that Jesus of Nazareth (as presented by the Gospels of the New Testament) would NEVER have espoused.